If we had a decrease in unemployment of just, say, 0.5 percent--from 9.1 to 8.6--what would be the level of revenue increase?
So it is a double whammy.
is it class warfare to seek some equity in the Tax Code?
And then it was declared that deficits don't matter. This special committee was created because deficits and debt do matter.
We created a new prescription drug benefit program, which CBO estimates will cost $967 billion over the next 10 years.
If we want to solve the related problems of debt and joblessness, we need to know how these problems arose.
it is unfair that wages are often taxed at a higher rate than investments.
Instead of building on the policies that have served us so well, we embarked upon two wars, one of which was dubious at best.
isn't it true that every major economy with which the United States competes really funds their government through consumption taxes?
When you see statistics, such as a backlog of 1.6 million people have overstayed their visas in the United States...
The sovereignty of this Nation is very, very important to me.
First off, let me say, I am Scotch-Irish, and I used Ireland earlier in an example only.
It is very obvious to me that we have got a broken visa system for overstays based on these numbers...
if we continue current policy, then it is fair to say that we are going to experience that kind of continued widening of the wealth gap in A...
if we were do it, let's do a $1.5 trillion deficit reduction and let's do it on the backs of those same people.
I would like to see some analyses.
In 1986, a Republican President and a Democratic Congress found common ground and came to a bipartisan agreement.
the Tax Code has grown too complicated and cumbersome and is fundamentally unfair.
